Illustrated Call-Outs in OpenOffice
Here’s a tutorial on one of those things experts often assume everyone will figure out. Nice instructions, well-illustrated.
Here’s a tutorial on one of those things experts often assume everyone will figure out. Nice instructions, well-illustrated.
There’s a good article on this at OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas. It’s probably just my style, but I find the entry editor harder to use than creating macros, so I like to find these good point by point directions.
This post is more of a story and may not be all that helpful, but then again, it might. I used to do a little bit of programming in Java, most applets, and so I decided I’d look at Java for OpenOffice.org and see where that got me. Having installed the SDK and gotten everything…
I’ve uploaded a new version of the 6×9 booklet template (previously here) set up for table of contents, index, and various headers and footers. I’ve used more variables to reduce the amount of user input. You should plan to edit this as a template first, as it contains my publishing information (Energion Publications set currently…
There’s an important OpenOffice BASIC guide that I failed to mention previously. It’s official, and the main index of the help file for OO BASIC, so I assumed it without mentioning it. It is Programming Guide for BASIC on docs.sun.com. For someone like me who has some experience with VBA, but no clues about OpenOffice,…
On a spreadsheet I needed to enter a formula in one cell and then fill down with that formula over a range. My first thought was that, as in VBA, I would record a macro and get the commands. I sometimes do that when I just can’t remember and am too lazy to look everything…
A person with a toolkit generally spends a bit of time learning to use the tools in it, otherwise he or she will get limited benefit from the tools available. It’s important to have the right tools, and it’s also important to learn how to use them effectively. This post applies in that general sense…